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Frank Kogan ([personal profile] koganbot) wrote2009-11-17 02:41 pm
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Iko Iko in a metal tragedy

OK, the latest Rihanna discussion that people frustratingly put under flock regards the second line in verse two of "Fire Bomb." Candidates are:

"Like the way that I'm at a tragedy"
"Microwave and a metal tragedy"*
"I echo within a metal tragedy"

My heart says "microwave" but my mind says "I echo," though the issue is hardly settled, and a third-party candidate may well carry the day.

*Leads to discussion of late-evening college entertainment consisting of different objects experimentally placed within microwave oven (some reliably characterized as "it's beautiful and it's blue").

EDIT: "Microwaving a metal tragedy" seems to be the - excellent - consensus, now. Or perhaps "Microwaving the metal tragedy." See here, especially [livejournal.com profile] weasel_seeker's suggestion that we add a dash:

Seems cold but baby no it doesn't have to be / Microwaving the metal - tragedy"

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